My Friday highlight is starting as a volunteer tour guide for Oxford Preservation Trust, a local charity that protects some of the city's best heritage and green spaces. The Painted Room is in a medieval building, with Tudor wall paintings and a Shakespeare connection. A special place!

imagine if this was put into clean energy, electrification, housing, transit, etc. www.wsj.com/economy/the-...

Ed Miliband will appoint a new special representative for climate security, as well as a new ministerial taskforce on “the national security and resilience risks of a changing climate and nature loss” - excellent to see Now release the full JIC report publicly! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

UK shares findings of damning climate crisis national security report suppressed under Starmer

El Niño poses critical threat to nations’ defences, says Ed Miliband in presentation to global foreign ministers

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Over 100,000 people have now signed the @nationaltrust.org.uk’s petition calling for climate resilience to be made a national mission, and for the government to restore nature to defend against wildfires and floods. Add your name below: bsky.app/profile/nati...

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Sign our petition to call for climate action here: buff.ly/IrLHG0f

What surprises me more is that the media happily trot out their words and opinions without pointing this essential paradox out.

Jo Wolff@jowolff.bsky.social · 6d ago

What surprises me is that people who have left Britain for the sake of their own greed still feel entitled to express an opinion about the country.

Had to be done.

A new mega poll by YouGov reveals that an overwhelming majority of constituencies want to rejoin the EU. Only 4 constituencies were not sure. It’s time to put EU membership on the table. https://bestforbritain.org/uk-membership-most-popular-eu-policy-in-all-uk-seats-bar-four-megapoll-finds/

🚨🐟 Over 40% of UK fish populations have declined in the last 10 years as the UK Govt continues to set fishing catch quotas above scientifically advised sustainable levels 😡 This can't continue! #EndOverfishing https://bit.ly/4y1mioK

Ministers accused of 'choosing' to run down Britain's fish stocks - Oceanographic

More than 60% of UK fish stocks have declined in the decade, with a new report claiming most catch quotas are set above scientific advice

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The UK Prime Minister has written a comment piece in @theguardian.com endorsing #CommunityEnergy: "The climate crisis is not a distant threat. It is here and with us now... British people... are looking for ways to do their bit. Community energy gives them that chance." - Andy Burnham #Climate

British people understand the climate crisis threat. Today I’m empowering them to tackle it | Andy Burnham

With nearly £30m of funding, I’m giving communities power over local energy. They know the gravity of global heating, and they want to be part of the solution, says UK prime minister Andy Burnham

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This is true for climate reasons too, the carbon footprints of the extremely rich are a huge problem. No one needs their own super yacht.

New Economics Foundation@neweconomics.bsky.social · last wk.

Limits on political donations aren’t enough to stop extreme wealth polluting our democracy. We need an extreme wealth line. Our CEO Danny Sriskandarajah explains why 👇

I still think there is not a good awareness out there of just how much the AI industry plans to run off fossil fuels. This is a *conservative* estimate that excludes many planned projects. These are weak plans and they can be stopped. au.finance.yahoo.com/news/us-data...

Hearing lots about AI risk of killing us all in the short term, and using loads of energy & water, so hastening climate demise if we survive the former. Is there a really compelling case for why it's still being championed by governments? What benefits outweigh a liveable planet?

According to our media, millions of people running out of water means "economy is at risk". The fact that we've been programmed to see the world in this way is a key component of climate and ecological collapse.

Dr. Aaron Thierry@thierryaaron.bsky.social · 2w ago

" @icimod.bsky.social says "peak water" is expected around mid-century in most Hindu Kush Himalayan river basins - the point at which glacier runoff reaches its maximum before declining as glaciers lose mass " #ClimateEmergency

The British press has been extremely hostile towards Amnesty International, Medicins Sans Frontiers, Oxfam and others for decades because *they offer rival narratives that the public might listen to*, and that is not acceptable, to them.

New YouGov: 62% of Britons believe the UK Government should invest more in nature restoration to address future extreme weather, while 74% believe the government is not preparing the country well for such events. 1/

What are we doing

Amy Borrett@amyborrett.ft.com · 3w ago

Britain’s state-owned electricity system operator has awarded Palantir a £21mn contract without inviting rival bids, arguing critical processes are too reliant on its tech to run a competitive procurement process Latest for @financialtimes.com: as.ft.com/r/7fe6c0b7-2...

I believe the RNLI are responding to legitimate concerns that people might drown.

British fascists are attacking and doxxing the incredible volunteers of the RNLI. Donate now.

Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea

Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.

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Turns out that if you are an old lady with a banner supporting Palestine, the government arrests you on charges of terrorism. If you are a masked white male thug bringing a national port to a standstill, the government does absolutely nothing, and the media covers it like some lads on a day out.

One of the most successful pedestrian streets in the world, the Strøget in Copenhagen, was filled with cars until a 2 year pedestrianization pilot project in 1962. The opposition argued “no cars means no business,” but the street has been a massive retail success, the city’s busiest shopping street.

This is demonstrably, measurably improving the health of the people who live there. Most notably, it increases the respiratory *& cognitive* health of children. They literally do better in school. If this country really gave a shit about children, this would be at the top of the public-policy list.

Daniel Moser@dmoser.bsky.social · 3w ago

Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.

My prediction is that we will never have enough CO₂ removal (CDR), so overshoot is not a thing. We will hit 1.5°C global warming by 2030, and every tonne of CO₂ we emit will make the world warmer. Where we stop is entirely up to us, but there’s no dialing down the temperature after that.

It cannot be stated enough: whatever your view of technology & policy development over the rest of this century & beyond, the rapid ending of fossil fuels is the most resilient & robust way to secure a liveable climate.

Glen Peters@glenpeters.bsky.social · 4w ago

If you want 1.5C, 1.8C, 2C, overshoot, no-overshoot, etc, then they all require the same thing: rapid short-term emission reductions reaching net zero CO2 emissions as soon as possible. This has been clear from the IPCC Special Report on 1.5C, which depicts "overshoot" on its cover! 1/

We're just hurtling toward immense destruction & suffering & the entire US political class has agreed it's better not to talk about it. "Insanity" barely covers it.

U.N. Says World Will Miss Its 1.5-Degree Climate Target

Carbon removal combined with emissions reduction is the only remaining pathway to avert catastrophic levels of warming, a new report warns.

nytimes.com

It's not often you can pinpoint real, positive change a journalist has caused. But as Turkmeni sources state, @dpcarrington.bsky.social's persistent and probing coverage of this issue has been critical to a change of policy, with massive implications. Big congrats www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘Breakthrough’ as Turkmenistan starts fixing ‘mindboggling’ methane mega-leaks

Secretive state begins repairs on ageing facilities after being revealed as worst country for leaks of potent greenhouse gas

theguardian.com

Good piece on England’s completely avoidable water crisis. “At the moment, we're using world-class drinking water to cool data centres, to irrigate our golf courses.”

The race to stop England running out of water

Who is to blame for the summer drought, and can England future-proof its water supplies?

bbc.co.uk

A 1981 internal memo written by the director of one of Exxon’s science labs said it was “distinctly possible” that cumulative carbon emissions could eventually ‘produce effects which will indeed be catastrophic (at least for a substantial fraction of the earth’s population).’”

Nearly 1,400 missing, mostly tourists, after Nepal-Tibet flash flood kills at least 270

Entire villages swept away after glacial collapse triggers flood in mountainous region popular with trekkers and pilgrims

theguardian.com

“It’s not that much of a stretch to think, yes, we’re seeing one terrible ramification of human-caused #climate change" says Dr Dan Shugar @watershedlab.bsky.social from @ucalgary.bsky.social www.newscientist.com/article/2586...

A glacier collapse is most likely cause of the Nepal disaster | New Scientist

Melting snow appears to have weakened a steep glacier at an altitude of 5 kilometres, causing it to plummet around a kilometre into the river valley below

newscientist.com

Thinking about the UK gov report "National Security Assessment on Global Ecosystems", Feb 2026. The language is incredibly stark. And it's *national security*, not exactly from tree-huggers: "Global ecosystem degradation & collapse threaten UK national security and prosperity... (high confidence)"

National security assessment on global ecosystems (accessible version)

gov.uk

“Neither the Starmer government, nor Andy Burnham’s, can say it didn’t know”: former Green party leader @carolinelucas.bsky.social on the shocking climate reports the UK government didn't want you to see www.thenerve.news/p/caroline-l...